Bethlehem, Israel News

This is a classic American story of hard work and earned success - of immigrants' struggle to find independence in America.

International consensus is increasing on the need for more "robust" peacekeeping around the world.

Despite the overwhelming evidence, why do some archeologists claim that Hebron was uninhabited during the times of Moses and Joshua? The city of Hebron presents a unique problem to the Biblical archaeologist.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak will once again play the role of the coalition's defense attorney on Monday when he meets US Special Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell in New York in an effort to resolve the growing disagreement between Jerusalem and Washington on settlement construction.

THE Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, visited the occupied Palestinian territories yesterday, including the Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem in the West Bank.

DEPUTY Prime Minister Julia Gillard has added her voice to the chorus of world leaders demanding that Israel freeze all settlement construction in the occupied West Bank.

JERUSALEM - Defense officials say the Israel military is pulling forces out of four major West Bank towns.

Coshocton County Sheriff's Office June 22 Total inmates, 61; males, 53; females, 8. Accidents June 21 Chree R. Glass, 18, of 27531 Township Road 47 and Brian D. Scheetz, 25, of 1230 Kenilworth Ave.

From theatre in a Bethlehem refugee camp to the Venice biennale, Palestinians are making art out of adversity - and doing it with grace, finds Ahdaf Soueif, organiser of the Palestine festival of literature New beginnings .

Environmental problems in Israel and the Palestinian territories can't wait for the resumption of peace talks Jens Touberg-Frandzen guardian.co.uk , Saturday 6 June 2009 09.00 BST The water spouts from a broken pipe, forming a perfect circle before it is dispersed by the wind and falls on the breaking waves of the Mediterranean sea.

Jerusalem is the most segregated city in the world. By Dan Lieberman Jerusalem Israel's latest strategy for complicating the peace process is to delay discussions of Jerusalem's future.

Composer and former bassist and singer of British rock band Pink Floyd Roger Waters, is seen while touring Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank refugee camp of Aida in Bethlehem, Tuesday, June 2, 2009.

RAMALLAH, West Bank - The shy Palestinian teenager raised her flute and dispatched the courtly melodies and cascading runs of an 18th-century concerto with surprising self-assurance. Over just three years of study the flute had become a near obsession for Dalia Moukarker, 16.

Freedom of Speech , Arts & Culture , Human Rights , Internet & Telecoms , Literature Languages: Excerpt The Palestine Festival of Literature is a traveling cultural roadshow touring across the West Bank, in Palestine, from May 23 to 28.

Officers walk in to Palestinian National Theatre in east Jerusalem and order it to be closed on opening night of literary event Armed Israeli police last night tried to halt the opening night of a prominent Palestinian literary festival in Jerusalem when they ordered a Palestinian theatre to close.

Obama isn't distancing himself from Israel, nor is he making advances towards Palestine.

'Israeli settlements are strategically placed to dominate hill-tops and ridges.' By Terry Lacey - Jakarta The mythological Ousalam bird became extinct because its mating dance was so complicated that it forgot the reason for doing it.

Palestinian interest in the intentions of the new Israeli government tends to focus on one small area in the West Bank, Ma'aleh Adumim and its environs, particularly the area known as E1 linking the settlement to East Jerusalem.

The foreign pilgrims who flocked to Bethlehem's Manger Square Wednesday had come to see the Pope celebrate mass in the birthplace of Jesus, but for Palestinians the papal visit to the West Bank was a chance to showcase their plight.

The pope's visit has inspired some Christian Palestinians. Others are resigned to the continued suffering of their community ) The pope's visit to Israel /Palestine has thrown the spotlight on the troubled Christian Palestinian community, a group normally only considered in the western media at Christmas when the world's media descends on ...